Ernie Bushmiller's "Nancy": C/D?

http://assets.amuniversal.com/408eaec099de0132c820005056a9545d

Man, Nancy is so consistently bizarre and weird and funny; I am surprised how low-brow and stupid it was considered in its time!!

I got that first year Fanta reprint of the complete Nancy & there is defs some filler,
just doing it so many decades there are a lot of standout ones, too.
It does make me look at the comics page differently. Marmaduke is dumb as fuck for example but sometimes it will have composition, or a premise, that would seem avant garde out of context.

The pseudonymous new artist who started last week is pretty great already:

http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/17

lol!

so guy gilchrist is gone? thank christ.

lmaoooo

http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/09

love the commenters saying "this isn't going to hold up over time!!"...fine, you can go read the other 70,000,000 Nancy strips then

A+++

some of these new strips are like, peak-Peanuts good

As someone who suffered through the Jerry Scott era (and never read any of the Gilchrist stuff), this is kind of amazing.

Even if I hadn't suffered through the Jerry Scott era, it'd still be amazing.

These new strips are pretty good! I like all the modern tech gags. They do a good job of keeping the Bushmiller sensibility and style, but also feel fresh. My only gripe is that some of the adults look off-brand.

speaking of, when did Heathcliff get so weird and postmodern?

http://www.gocomics.com/heathcliff/2018/04/12

https://theoutline.com/post/4084/the-internet-oddballs-who-think-the-heathcliff-comics-are-deep?zd=1&zi=6j4p6gjh

I mentioned it on the other thread, but: Olivia Jaimes's new Nancy strips are great!

I'm dying at this one: http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/12

But Gilchrist is apparently still doing Sundays? Because now I'm really curious to see what Jaimes does with Sunday space.

Nancy otm, Sluggo needs to up his YouTube views.

xp

But Gilchrist is apparently still doing Sundays?

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, April 19, 2018 9:43 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sunday strips have a longer lead time, I assume there's a backlog still

these Jaimes strips are great, tyvm everyone

ugh jerry scott era nancy is one of the worst strips ever

this is so great

Thread revive and no mention of Mark Newgarden's awesome "How to Read Nancy" from last year? Rectified.

yay these are really funny

the before is... well, yeah

Everyone is posting about the new Nancy writer. To help you make your own comparison, here is an entire Nancy strip from a few weeks ago by the old (and I do mean old) writer, followed by a strip from the new one. pic.twitter.com/efOeUJWm8t

— Cybernetically Enhanced Abby Denton (@mizabitha) April 18, 2018

So it had basically turned into Pluggers?

I don’t think pluggers is that sentimental about thirty years ago. that’s some weird specific fixation

do you think a slightly-younger cartoonist would say “we had that 70s show and seinfeld” because... uh, damn

https://i.imgur.com/qZH402S.jpg

Hooo boy

????

the moody blues one has been ref’d a lot but I was afraid to track it down, thanks crut

feel like silby has never experienced a tuuuuuuesday afterrrrrrnooon

That just makes me feel bad for Ernie Bushmiller

Would have much preferred Nancy going to see ELO.

Thankfully that comic seems to have been published long after his death

Supposedly from 1998? That has to be a miscitation, right? Or the Gilchrists were showing the world that rock acts could have orchestras when... god, I can’t unravel how dumb and backward this is

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbKvuBlU0AApT93.jpg:large

Holy crap, I didn't realize they started in 1995. I assumed that strip was from the 60s or 70s.

tbf pbs stations even now show stuff like a special evening with the moody blues

That's because they buy programming from national PBS and stuff like Moody Blues concerts were paid for a long long time ago.

yeah but the rights to air them don't actually last that long

iirc they mostly show the “live at red rocks” which was kind of donated as a fundraiser show in 1993 or something. It’s up there with the mannheim steamroller christmas music shows in the rotation.

I'd be willimg to believe the Moody Blues paid for a Nancy feature back in the 60s. It was a prestige move.

Moody Blues were on the Simpsons roughly the same time (The Homer & Flanders Go To Vegas ep).

Thread revive and no mention of Mark Newgarden's awesome "How to Read Nancy" from last year? Rectified.

― mick signals, Thursday, April 19, 2018 4:55 PM (one week ago) Bookmark

i've been intrigued by & enjoying this comic and i picked up this book today, looks legit great just from an initial flip-thru, thx for mentioning it!

thought some of the strips this week were a little weaker but i liked this

http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/28

rumbled

And this http://www.gocomics.com/nancy/2018/04/27

Is Metanancy the Nancy we deserve?

metanancy, paradoxically, is the realest nancy

took me about 10 seconds to find this in my big nancy book:

https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/1C2b0U3k3l201A0Z341E/IMG_8031.jpg

lower left corner of the back cover:

https://dzwonsemrish7.cloudfront.net/items/3q2K122m3w3d0W011N0M/IMG_8029.jpg

Well there's classic or "pure" Metanancy, Nancy that's about Nancy the comic, and then there's "post-Nancy" Metanancy that's Nancy about Nancy the cultural phenomenon